River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-04-21
Temperance.

temperance.
CONDUCTED BY THE. w. C. t. u.
For God and Home and Natire Land.
The following letter from Miss Fran
els Willard to the N. Y. Weekly Wit.
ness voices our own thought on the
defeat of the Amendment i'll Michigan.
To the Editor of the Witness. -e For
how many years have we heard the as
sertion "High license educdteS toaoard
prohibition. All thinking men and
women now know to the contrary
| Michigan has demonstrated this for.
ever and day. In every other state
the prohibition Amendment has car
! ried the majority, but in no other have
| we had to contend with the high IL
cense craze and fallacy. | attribute to
this, directly, tho defeat of the amend
ment, if it is defeated. Good men I'M
der the mental bewilderment of the
high license theory joined hands with
| the saloon. Elders in the church won
the applause of liquor dealers by their
public addresses. Ministers from the
pulpit discanted on the beauties of
"
prohibition. Never before have church
members openly and proudly arrayed
themselves in any state against the
prohibitory amendment. High license
alone could have educated them down
to this level. Let the hosts of prohi-
bition cry out and spare not against
this monstrous iniquity. Compromises
are always worse than defeats in the
long run. Indeed, they often prove
short cut to the very defeat against
which they profess to provide. The
fact that outrageous frauds were prac-
ticed in Michigan does not alter this
other and most grieyous fact that
Michigan Christians, by their ballots
gave the majority that still claims the
state to the loathsome system of the
liquor traffic.
The darkest hour is just before the
dawn. 1.-The Lord is with us, the God
of Jacob is Our.refuge. = Francis E.
Willard. Evanston, ILL.,, April 8.
The Union -ecently subscribed for
100 copies of the 5. S. edition of The
Young Crusader for year for distri-
button in the Sunday Schools. This,
as well as The Weekly Crusader soc
is published at the Union Signal office
ut Chicago.
The School Suffrage Law means
municipal suffrage for women in some
cities, where the council appoints the
school board, but the women Of Piver
Falls live under different charter and
did not care to ask for privileges not
theirs, but they may be expected to
use those already given them at the
annual school meeting. Hudson has
school commissioner and a goodly
number of our sex were at the polls
using their newly given power at the
last election.
The House without a Foundation
"We are studying the house on the
rock. Before trying to teach the hid
den truth OF this parable, / am anxious
to have the children clearly understand
the literal meaning, so L dismissed
them by saying, "now be sure to look
at the foundation of your own houses.
Perhaps you may see house that is
being built. Just open your eyes"
The next day all the children were
questioned. All had been close OBJ
servers. Willie alone looked puzzled
and when asked, said, 1--WE have no
foundation, we live over saloon.
l-LCrusader.
Come let us sell him." What is
the difference between selling our
brother to the Ishmaelites, and selling
to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces
of silver the rightfD to take him
captiveP Lesson Hints for April.
The Poison Problem. BY Felix L. Os-
valid, NJ. d., New York, d. Appleton
& Co. p. 1873. Price, IS cents.
In this little volume, DR.. 0swold,
| than whom no writer is Drawer, more
pungent upon occasions, or more read
able, discusses the cause and cure of
| intemperance.
In the beginning he calls attention
| to the extent and enOrmity to which
the consumption of liquors has grown,
| and the power the liquor traffic has
acquired, which are really facts to be
alarmed about. The argument is based
upon the assumption, which is main
tanned by many considerations, that
alcohol is a poison without any bene-
| fetal qualities to the system, the appe-
tite for which, when once acquired,
grows, and cannot be mitigated by any
measures of mere temperance, or by
| compromises. No moral or social evil
is greater than those to which it con-
duces.
Judging from secular standpoint"
SAYS DIR. Oswald. eve should be in
clined to think that alcohol has done
more mischief in single year, than
obscene literature has done in CEN
tury. And, unhappily, it involves the
loss of self respect, and thus destroys
the basis on which the advocate of
appeals to the moral instinc5 would
found his plan of salvation. The power
of moral resistance is weakened with
every REPETITION of the poison dose, and
we might as well beseige bed-ridden
consumptive with appeals to resume
his place at the head OF an afflicted
family.
The Punishment of alcohol from the
sick-room. as we'll as from the banquet
hall, is demanded. Thousands of
topers owe their ruin to a prescription
of tonic bitters.
Taught by the logic of such expert
ences, the friends of reform will at last
recognize that the temperate use OF
alcohol is but the FIRST stage of pro-
gressive and shame-proof disease, and
that. moderation and reputation fail
ing, we must direct our blows at the
root of the upas-tree, and adopt the
motto of eradication.
Truce means defeat in the struggle
against an evil that will reproduce its
seed from the basis of any comprom-
Use.
For remedies against the spread or
: the liquor habit the author proposes in
: struction respecting the physiological
. effects of the drug, such as is provid-
ed for in the school system of several
states; prescription of its use under
all circumstances; the provisions and
) encouragement of healthier amuse-
/ ments, from which alcohol shall be
conspicuously absent, as it is now con-
/ spicuously present in or near most or
binary amusement; and prohibitory
legislation.
} Our temperance friends will hardly
, find a stronger document in support OF
. their cause than DR.. Oswald offers
them.-7Popular Science Monthly.